New Manga Shout Out: 6/25/12 - 7/1/12

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. With the no-raws/scans rule on MH, you have to work a bit to find these mangas. This week features a fight against an elite school takeover, a clash between brides and a battle against aliens. Remember, if you like any of the series, favorite them. Don't forget to also thank the various people who feed your manga addiction. ^_^ Translators and Scanlators, please check out these series and see if you can spread some more manga love~

We're still looking for people who know Japanese and want to help write summaries for our manga database and for the shout out. Please PM me if you want to help out. Now onto the series~

Amahara Mushin was adopted into the family when Sayaka, also an adopted daughter, found him abandoned in the park and brought him home. They have been close since a young age and trained kendo together at the dojo that their family owns. Mushin admires his big sister and has tremendous romantic feelings for her. Sayaka soon realizes that she too has grown complex feelings for him. When a new elite school, Avalon Academy, is built in Mushin and Sayaka’s town and the students there start threatening the well being of the community, the siblings stand up against the takeover.

Fuuka and Kouki have been childhood friends since they were little, which leads to others mistaking them as a couple as they are now in high school. At their high school, from the many assorted clubs, exists the Bride’s club, where female students follow the instructions of the club president, Fuyusaki. When Fuyusaki finds out about the great knife skill Fuuka harbors, she challenges Fuuka with the pride of being the Bride’s club president at hand. Even though her knife skills are defeated by the Bridal Kitchen skills of Fuyusaki, after some encouragement from Kouki, Fuuka returns to the Bride’s club to enter the club and aim for the title “Bride of Brides”! Will Fuuka’s knife skills and determination lead her to be the nation’s best bride?!

In the year 788 on the day later known as the Night of the Black Full Moon, aliens arrived in Japan via asteroids. These aliens were vicious powerful creatures who fed on humans and terrorized the nation but were eventually sealed away by a small group of people with special powers. Over a millennium later, the ancestors of the heroes called the Inyo work as the Army’s special unit to defeat the same aliens that have started to leak into the world due to the weakening of the sealing spell. Sakaki Yuko is a soldier for the Inyo, fighting against the aliens on the front lines. Her violent life started when she was forced to kill her lover, Seishiro, but in return, Yuko gained the ability to channel his spiritual power to fight evenly with the powerful aliens.

This is another addition to the popular Ikebukuro West Gate Park universe, which features the young man Majima Makoto. Makoto lives in an area that is known for gang problems and delinquency, and it is currently dominated by two gangs. Their colors are black and red, and they are known as the G-boys and the R-angels, respectively. Makoto is not a member of either, but his old friend from school, Takashi, is the head of the G-boys gang. The head of the R-angels, which is a gang that only formed in the past year, is a mysterious dancer known as Kyouichi.

One day, Makoto is approached by a young video journalist named Matsui Kana. Kana convinces Makoto to be her guide in IWGP as she films for a documentary about the area. Kana may end up getting more than she bargained for, both in Makoto and in the dangerous area of IWGP.

Aoto was technically supposed to be dead, but thanks to his younger sister Meika’s pleading and the water goddess, Mikuri, who granted her wish, he was brought back to life. Although in the process, the goddess of Hanamikawa Temple, Mikuri, lost her tremendous power and the ability to help people of the town. Feeling guilty that her one selfish wish prevents countless others from Mikuri’s magic, Meika takes it upon herself to be helpful to anyone in the city. Mikuri eventually gives up the role of goddess to Meika and gives what little magic power she has left to her. Now as one of the many guardians of her town, Meika tries granting people's wishes in their most desperate situations.

Rookie manga author Himesaki Momoko, an introverted high school girl, brought her proudest work to the publisher to see if they would put it in one of their shoujo magazines. Momoko’s shyness and nervousness caused a misunderstanding and, although her work was highly praised and given a spot in the magazine, it was published in a moe magazine instead of a shoujo one. Feeling down on herself, Momoko soon learns that her classmate and crush, Igarashi, despises the moe genre, but, for an odd reason, takes interest in the work Momoko did. Since her work was published under a different name, Igarashi didn’t find out it was Momoko’s series, but she has to do something before he finds out that she's an author for a moe magazine and gets totally hated.

Nico is a highly popular, but mysterious, charismatic model who can change her look so dramatically that it's hard to believe her pictures are all of the same person! She shows up to help guide women who are unpopular, lacking in self-confidence, and who don't love themselves into becoming popular, pretty, and confident!

Twenty year old Ibuki Yamato is a man who failed his college exam twice, making him now a 2-year ronin. Even though he is on his way to go live at a dormitory owned by his childhood friend’s family, misfortune comes to him during his trip through Tokyo. On the train, he accidentally falls into the bosom of a female cosplayer. At a bookstore, the store clerk innocently tells him not to loiter, where her persistence causes him to rip the store-owned book he was reading. As he rushes to get money to pay for the book, he bumps into a delivery girl, which causes him to pay even more money, before he’s called a criminal. Though he is fortunate enough to help two ladies take back their belongings, which were stolen by a purse-napper, Yamato is dead tired when he reaches the dormitory.

But his troubles are not at all over, when he finds out that the female cosplayer, the store clerk girl, the delivery girl and the two other ladies from before are all residents of this dormitory as well. Adding to this fact, all of these girls are foreigners who have come to study abroad. Will Yamato find peace under a roof with five other girls of different backgrounds?

Ryouko is a pretty prudish young teenager, who doesn't even like romantic dramas on tv. One day after school, Ryouko sees her friend Miki crying while an attractive young teacher has sex with her. Instead of helping Miki, Ryouko feels frozen to the spot. Eventually, seeing Miki like that spurs her to seek out a sexual experience of her own with a boy who asks her out. Unfortunately, her tentative steps towards exploring sex quickly spiral into a nightmare. In the meantime, Miki can't figure out how to handle her own sexuality. While it may not have started out as consensual, her body enjoys sex with her teacher, and she can't help coming back for more. She can't figure out whether she really wants him or a nice boy her own age. Unfortunately for her, the adult man who is taking advantage of her sees her as nothing more than a sex toy. Will these two young girls find a way to navigate the dangerous and confusing world of sex?

Thanks go to tethysdust for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:

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IWGP-R was my favorite this week. It's a part of a really popular series, so I imagine it will have a lot of readers. I've never read/watched the other IWGP series, though, so I have no idea how it stacks up against the rest.Here's what vyc had to say:

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Chiguhagu Lovers - definitely my favorite from this week. Great artwork and all the characters are lovable and easy to connect with. Storyline is well constructed and picks up quickly and the comedy keeps the tension lighthearted. Now for Midori-Mori's take on his manga:

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This week's series bloomed like flowers for me. Hanayome no Kaze is a nice series where you can see the girl's pride in being a bride. But I loved Salad Bowl. Though its scenario is reminiscent of the cliche manga we know, "Love Hina," I'm sure you'll love this series just the same with all its assorted characters.

Momoka Comicalized was another one of these "I wanna be a mangaka" titles coupled with some good fanservice scenes :) But that's about it... I wouldn't really recommend it as there isn't much charackter development. The romance falls short too^^

I didn't know Chiguhagu Lovers ended in 15 chapters...I read the oneshots and was somewhat hooked, though the serialization started off a bit different, so I didn't read that past c3... But definitely a good read for Kendo lovers.

And of course Salad-bo oO Epic series in terms of fanservice. But that's all you will find there :) It has your usual harem plot, with no development until the last two chapters. Still worth a peek for the boobs :)